Free download of Wildlife Photography e-book: Sunday Dec 11th

Wildlife photographer and dpreview.com contributor Uwe Skrzypczak is making his book 'Wildlife photography: On Safari with Your DSLR: Equipment, Techniques, Workflow' available as a free download. The download will be available for 12 hours on Sunday December 11th. The German-language version of the e-book will be available exactly one week later. As a goodwill offering, Uwe Skrzypczak and his publisher Rockynook will be making the English language version of the book available again on Sunday December 18th (There will be another news story nearer the time). This will be the only legal method of getting the book for free, so please do not share other download links.

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I have found this site most helpful and have recommended it quite a few others. Please keep up the outstanding work on the reviews, new products, firmware updates, etc... But this offer is a joke, or a scam by the publisher sent as a part of an e-mail, long after it expired...Thanks

I just received the email today also. After seeing so many others in the same boat, I'm wondering if this wasn't a ploy on the publishers part to "up" the sales of the book. Scams like this only ensure I'll never buy one of his books.

It is a pity for me too. I received the newsletter on 24th of december. I had likely received the book because in february 2012 i go to tanzania, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti. Just this locations are in the book. How can I get it?

I was again dissappointed thea I could not down this article.Last week it stated it would be available on Sunday December 18. If i knew it would have been available on saturday and sunday for twelve hours I would have made the deadline.What a loss....

thank you Uwe,great book, there was no problem downloading it from Western Australia, maybe because we are all up while everyone else is still asleep kind regardsjackP.S: one of my friends already started thinking about going to Tanzania ( Ruaha National Park ) with his beloved Olympus DSLR

I find the attitude of some on here very sad. The fact that they could not download this book, even though there were many ways posted here to do so. They are acting like little children, plain and simple!As for me, I say thank you to Uwe for the offer of the book, it is very nice. Merry Christmas to Uwe and all on this site!

It was worth posting the difficulty I encountered. Others posted link to Google URL, which I used as source download. I don't know if it was legal. If and when DPReview declare such download as illegal, I'd gladly delete the file. I think the Wildlife Photo would be helpful for ammatures.

nice scam. there was no way to download this unless it was the middle of the night. Sometimes do nothing is better than screwing up; even though the intention was right. This guy is banned from my book.

Joseph - I don't know how the site was able to differentiate the location of the requesting computer with respect to timewindow, but the point is it was only for 12 hour duration for each specific geography. Your search engine was not the culprit. The site was simply overloaded.

Hi... i also tried dozens of times too what a waste of time that was !!!my guess is most people didn't get the free book ..website obviously couldn't cope with the demand they should have known that !!!